David Putnam: Bruno Johnson, an ex-detective with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and an ex-convict

Anthony Quinn: Celcius Daly, a Catholic detective inspector, in Belfast, Northern Ireland; W.B. Yeats, the poet, during World War I, in Ireland

New Ian Sansom series: Swanton Morley, the People’s Professor, researching a history of England, with a guide to each county, assisted by his daughter Miriam, and Spanish Civil War vet Stephen Sefton, in late 1930s England

Mel Sherratt: Allie Shenton, a detective sergeant, in Stoke-on-Trent, England; the Estate thriller saga series, on the notorious Mitchell Estate, in the fictional city of Stockleigh, England

Andy Siegel: Tug Wyler, a personal injury and medical malpractice attorney, in New York City

David Thorne: Daniel Connell, a disgraced ex-City (London) lawyer now scraping a living in Essex, England

Jerusha Jones: Meredith Morehouse, a former city girl and curator of the Imogene Museum, in Platts Landing, along the Columbia River, in Washington; Nora Ingram-Sheldon, whose husband is a fugitive criminal, in Mayfield, Washington

Sam Wiebe: Michael Drayton, a 20-something private investigator specializing in missing persons, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in the Vancouver Noir series

Vincent Zandri: Jack Marconi, warden of the maximum security Green Haven Prison, later a private investigator, in New York; Dick Moonlight, a former police detective turned private investigator and massage therapist, in Albany, New York; Chase Baker, an author and tour guide, in an archeological adventure-thriller series

Ben Sanders: Sean Devereaux, a detective sergeant, and his friend John Hale, an ex-cop, private investigator, in Auckland, New Zealand; Marshall Grade, an ex-NYPD undercover cop, now in witness protection in Santa Fe, New Mexico

New Alexandra Sokoloff series: Matthew Roarke, a San Francisco FBI agent, pursuing Cara Lindstrom, a serial killer, in the Huntress/FBI series

New Robert Dugoni series: Tracy Crosswhite, a homicide detective in Seattle, Washington

New Elizabeth J. Duncan series: Charlotte Fairfax, formerly the costume mistress of the Royal Shakespeare Company, now working as a costume designer for a small company in upstate New York in the Shakespeare in the Catskills mysteries

Two new Robert J. Randisi series: Sangster, a hitman who discovered he had a soul and retired to New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Hitman with a Soul trilogy; Truxton “Tru” Lewis, a retired NYPD captain housesitting wherever he's needed, in the Housesitting Detective series

Richard Van Anderson: David McBride, a failed surgeon forced to perform illegal organ harvests, in Manhattan, New York City

Maya Corrigan: Val Deniston, leaving New York City to live with her curmudgeonly grandfather in fictional Bayport, near Chesapeake Bay, on the eastern shore of Maryland, in the Five-Ingredient mysteries

New Lynn Hinton series: Sister Evangeline (Eve) Divine, leaving (and later returning to) a monastery near Pecos, New Mexico, to help her father, a former cop running a private detective agency in Los Angeles, California, in the Divine Private Detective Agency series

Andy McDermott: Nina Wilde, an archeologist, and Eddie Chase, an ex-SAS agent serving as bodyguard, in a global apocalyptic thriller series

Two new series on the Wendy Corsi Staub page: Mundy’s Landing, a small town with a sinister secret, in the Hudson Valley of New York; Lily Dale, a lakeside town in New York full of kooky psychics and mediums

New Joyce Cato series: Monica Noble, a vicar’s wife in the Cotswold village of Heyford Bassett, England (Faith Martin pseudonym)

New Janet Dawson series: Jill McLeod, a Zephyrette working on the California Zephyr between Chicago, Illinois, and the San Francisco Bay Area, in the early 1950s

Maddie Day: Robbie Jordan, proprietor of a Pans ’N Pancakes, a restaurant in fictional South Lick, Indiana, in the Country Store mysteries (Edith Maxwell pseudonym)

Two new series on the Phillip DePoy page: Foggy Moskowitz, a former car thief and amateur sleuth, working for Child Protective Services, in 1970s Florida; Christopher Marlowe, the playwright, poet, and rake, serving as a secret agent for Queen Elizabeth, in 1580s England

New Ryan David Jahn series: Damien Lamb, a private investigator with a mission, in Louisville, Kentucky

Jennifer Kincheloe: Anna Blanc, a young socialite who wants to be a detective, in 1907 Los Angeles, California

New Stephen King series: Bill Hodges, a retired detective battling his nemesis the Mercedes Killer, in a midwestern city

New Bill Kitson series: Adam Bailey, a sleuthing journalist, and his partner Eve Samuels, in ghostly English manor house investigations, in the Eden House mysteries

New Con Lehane series: Ray Ambler, curator of the New York Public Library’s crime fiction collection, and homicide detective Mike Cosgrove, in New York City

Rob Leininger: Gabrielle Johns, an ex-showgirl, playing backroom poker and working for her father, a private investigator, in Reno, Nevada; Mort Angel, a private-eye-in-training at his nephew’s detective agency, in Reno, Nevada

New Edith Maxwell series: Rose Carroll, a Quaker midwife in a mill town, in 1880s Massachusetts

Jakob Melander: Lars Winkler, a former drug addict and squater, now a homicide detective, in Copenhagen, Denmark